The Winners of the 2018 Papa Bear Awards

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Fourteen Days in July by Sam Worth

Shakespeare Writes Crittendon's Commandos by San Antonio Rose

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Earthquake! by katbybee

Freedom, Hanging By A Thread by Signy1

Tape and Needle and Scissors and String and... by Argonite

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1914 Christmas by Goldleaf 83

Prisoners of the Christmas Truce by katbybee

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One Beautiful Crop by dust on the wind

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Up the Ladder, Away You Go by Thaddeus MacChuzzlewit

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For the Birds by Crystal Rose of Pollux

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The Asparagus Plot by dust on the wind

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2017 Short Story Speedwriting: Curiouser and Curiouser! by dust on the wind

Sasquatch and the Three Henchmen by katbybee

Story Time With Newkirk by MoonyEstelChase

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In Other Words, Just A Routine Mission by 2lieutenant

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Freedom, Hanging By A Thread by Signy1

More Than a Number by Book 'em Again 

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The Fall by dust on the wind

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Insomnia is Not Pretty by katbybee

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Black Forest Cakewalk by Thaddeus MacChuzzlewit

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The Enigma by snooky-9093

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Once Bitten by katbybee

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Tape and Needle and Scissors and String And... by Argonite

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A Goose Is A Goose: A Festive Meal, in three courses by dust on the wind

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Shakespeare Writes Crittendon's Commandos by San Antonio Rose

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Earthquake! by katbybee

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1914 Christmas by Goldleaf 83

Fourteen Days in July by Sam Worth

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Prisoners of the Christmas Truce by katbybee

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More Than a Number by Book 'em Again 

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Fourteen Days in July by Sam Worth

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1914 Christmas by Goldleaf83

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Shakespeare Writes Crittendon's Commandos by San Antonio Rose

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Tape and Needle and Scissors and String and... by Argonite

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Burkhalter realized Klink was actually a man of three talents:

1: Chronic stupidity

2: Masterful emoting of horror

3: Packer of thousands of cubic miles of despair into a singlemonosyllable. 

Tape and Needle and Scissors and String and... by Argonite

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Anyone who swore honesty was a virtue had never met Carter. 

Tape and Needle and Scissors and String and... by Argonite

Hogan realized that he didn’t like the sensation of being in the same room as Klink without a single notion of what to say or do next. That he inspired this in Klink daily never crossed his mind.  

Tape and Needle and Scissors and String and... by Argonite

He’s their cook, but he’s not just a cook. LeBeau is a firm rock and a volcano at the same time. Newkirk already knows they’re going to wake up tomorrow morning to find something essential is missing, like the floor, or maybe gravity. 

Up the Ladder, Away You Go by Thaddeus MacChuzzlewit

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Chapter 10, An Exchange, Prisoners of the Christmas Truce by katbybee

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Chapter 2: Christmas Day, 1914 Christmas by Goldleaf 83

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Benjamin Newkirk in Prisoners of the Christmas Truce by katbybee

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Private Gutermuth in 1914 Christmas by Goldleaf83

Janacek in The Fall by dust on the wind

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The Enigma by snooky-9093

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Up the Ladder, Away You Go by Thaddeus MacChuzzlewit

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LeBeau in More Than a Number by Book 'em Again 

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Hogan in The Fall by dust on the wind

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Olsen in Black Forest Cakewalk by Thaddeus MacChuzzlewit

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Langenscheidt in A Goose Is A Goose: A Festive Meal, in three courses by dust on the wind

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It’s never a good idea to make friends with your Christmas dinner. 

A Goose Is A Goose: A Festive Meal, in three courses by dust on the wind

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They told him the French would be rude and the English cold. Now that he knows them, Olsen kind of wishes that was true. It would be better than overdramatic and down-right crazy. 

Black Forest Cakewalk by Thaddeus MacChuzzlewit

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